Danube

With an LRV of about 16, Danube absorbs most of the light that reaches it. It makes a wall recede and a room feel smaller, and it needs good light to show its color. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.

Danube in other brands

• Blue Daze Johnstone's Blue Very close ΔE 0.6
• Quarterdeck Dulux Australia S35E6 Blue Very close ΔE 0.9
• Summer Lake Dunn-Edwards DE5838 Blue Very close ΔE 1.3
• Allports Resene Blue Very close ΔE 1.4
• Monet Magic Plascon B3-A1-1 Blue Very close ΔE 1.4
• Blue Benjamin Moore 784 Blue Very close ΔE 1.6

Lighter and darker in Sherwin-Williams

• Dynamic Blue Sherwin-Williams 6958 Blue
• Jay Blue Sherwin-Williams 6797 Blue

How it looks with color blindness

• Deuteranopia Reads as blue
• Protanopia Reads as blue
• Tritanopia Reads as teal
• Achromatopsia Reads as gray

Under different light

• Warm bulb, 2700 K Turns teal
• Neutral, 4000 K Close to listed
• Daylight, 6500 K As listed

Questions

Is Danube warm or cool?

Cool. Its LAB b value of -30.1 and a value of -9.5 lean toward blue or green, so it reads cooler next to a pure gray.

What is the closest Johnstone's color to Danube?

Blue Daze (Johnstone's), at ΔE 0.6. Under ΔE 2 the two are hard to tell apart on a wall.

What is the LRV of Danube?

≈ 16. Sherwin-Williams does not publish an LRV for it, so this one is calculated from the color.